Hespin Wood site chosen for treatment plant

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Hespin Wood near Carlisle has been named as the preferred site for the construction of a household waste treatment plant.

A second treatment plant will be built near Barrow.

So-called "transfer stations" will also be set up near Penrith, at Distington in west Cumbria, and Kendal Fell.

Cumbria County Council has signed a £400 million deal with Shanks Waste Solutions to build and operate the facilities for 25 years.

The council's cabinet heard that Shanks had still to identify a site for the Barrow plant.

But it had chosen Hespin Wood, where there is already a county council landfill site, as the ideal place for a treatment plant serving north Cumbria.

The proposals are still subject to planning approval.